<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> I'm probably missing something, but it's unclear to me how to create<br>
> this local storage mountpoint on that host. (I don't see anything in<br>
> the Node TUI.) I tried simply specifying "/data/images" in the hopes<br>
> that it was automatically created, but the Admin console just spun<br>
> indefinitely (eventually refreshing the page revealed that the store<br>
> was note created).<br>
><br>
><br>
> I'm currently rebuilding that Node as a F16+VDSM box instead -- so I<br>
> can get in there and set this up manually (is there a way to get into<br>
> schell on oVirt Nodes and mess with the [F16-based?] OS?)<br>
<br>
</div></div>You can drop to the shell using F2 and create the directory that way.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks, that's really helpful. I'm sure it was mentioned somewhere, but I was trying different consoles with "root" etc. and unsure on how to get to the terminal.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
IMO, since we restrict the location you can create a local data store,<br>
we should automatically create that when configuring the local<br>
datastore.<br>
<br>
We can't actually pre-create the directory since it's a mounted<br>
filesystem, but it might be possible to do it at installation or boot<br>
time. The right place is in vdsm when it's trying to create the local<br>
data store.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So, after initially attempting to just "create" the directory and being told it was a read-only filesystem, I did a little more investigation and realized that the "Data" volume (in /dev/HostVG) was simply not mounted. I mounted this with the command:</div>
<div><br></div><div>mount /dev/HostVG/Data /data</div><div><br></div><div>And now I have a /data/images directory (as well as /data/core). I'm not entirely sure why this wasn't mounted since I see it in /etc/fstab. In fact, when I discovered it was in /etc/fstab, I tried just</div>
<div><br></div><div>mount /data</div><div><br></div><div>And that also worked just fine. So puzzled that thsi was not mounted when the system booted up. Maybe I missed an error message, but dmesg isn't saying anything obvious (not sure if that's where I'd see mount errors or not). Maybe this is a known issue.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks again for the help -- this definitely got me moving in the right direction. Hopefully I'm moments away from being able to get that first VM running.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>
Hans</div></div>